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scope with the compass, and weighing in the to scale the heavens was interrupted "on anything moveable or immoveable under the PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. attempt &c., balance, and justifying with the plumb -line by the Cenfusion of Tongues, they took to "canopy of heaven, whereby or whereon,"
solemnly swear and the square. that craft of signs and symbols, which have &c. " These several points Iequivocation, The Masonic traditions, with other rites or a great measure "to observe without evasion, Lord Plunkett, when initiating upon the ever since enabled them, in kind under no less a and ceremonies, Joabert M. tells us, towards of any reservation be independent of the ordinary means of " mental to immorality of secret Associations, uttered inter-communication-that is to say, either "penalty, on the violation of any of them, than the close of his startling revelations in the Month, he may reserve for another paper, MY these emphatic words-" I consider an associa- spoken or written language. There-anterior "TO HAVE MY THROAT CUT ACROSS, MY "unless," quoth he, "before the month conies "TONGUE TORN OUT BY THE ROOT, AND unquesdispersion-was, their historical to be :extremely to catli a secret by " tion bound round I be burked at a railway station, tionably, as has been well said, " the greatest "BODY BURIED IN THE SAND 01' THE BEA AT " "dangerous on the principles of common "meeting of Masons the world has ever seen," "LOW-WATER MARK, or a cable's length from " throttled in a crowd by one of the sociable Brethren, sworn to vengeance, on his way " flows and ebbs regularly the tide where " law ; inasmuch as it sub tracts from the when, " as if impiously electing, for their "shore, " twice in twenty jour hours, or the chore "home from a Grand Lodge dinner at " State, and interposes betty een the subject " Grand Master the fallen leader of the rebel Tavern.' " J. M. has certainly "angels, they, under the banner of Liberty, " efficient punishment of being branded as a "in' Freemason's " and his allegiance to his ki ng." this preliminary paper of his, given to all moral "Equality, and Fraternity, set themselves to " wi?fully perjured individual, void of into this Masons and non -Masons alike a sufficiently worth, and unfit to be received Freemasonry is notoriously and essentially "achieve the independence of the human of a Secret Association. Its members are " race, by defying the Divine Authority I" " warranted lodge, or any other, or society of hard nut to crack, and one the con!entscum keep me which may judiciously be swallowed oaths. bound together by the moat t solemn Lucifer, in punishment of his defiarce of that " Masons : so HELP ME Goo, and They are pledged to an eternal secrecy. Authority, had been "hurled, with hideous "steadfast in this my great and solemn obliga- grans salts.-Weekly Register. They call down upon themselves!, through " ruin and combustion, down to bottomless " tion of an entered Apprentice Freemason." The candidate for admission to the Craft adjurations, invoking upon their heads the "perdition." So, after him, those First most hideous penalties in t he name of the Masons, lured on to a hardly less overwhelm- of Masonry, having taken this preliminary AN G LICANISM GOING TO Great Architect of the Universe, if their ing catastrophe by a like ambition, beheld oath, is then addressed by the Worshipful PIECES. Oath of Silence should ever be broken. In their Grand Lodge-2,247 a.c.-" awfully Master, who says to him-" By your meek and giving in their submission to the rules of tLe "dissolved by the fiat of the Supreme "candid behaviour this evening you have Craft, they pledge themselves not only to " Architect himself !" The Confusion of "escaped two great dangers. But there is a " The Religion not of an Tafal!ible Head but of Infallible silence and secrecy, but to the most absolute Tongues at Babel had its Divine and con- "THIRD, which will await you to the latest Members." obedience. While these fa es are beyond soling sequel 2,280 years afterwards-in the " period of your existence. The dangers which The fundamental principles of Protestantthe reach of denial, it is allow ed that English Gift of Tongues on the descent of the Holy "you have escaped are those o/ STABBING AND ism being that every man is his own infallible Freemasonry is, in a social point of view, Ghost at Pentecost, upon the heads of the "STRANGLING, fir, at your entrance into the guide, and that he is bound to believe, not comparatively powerless. Aldroad, there can Twelve Apostles at Jerusalem, before their " lodge, the sword was presented to your naked what God has revealed, but only what he be little doubt of it, the craft :assumes a very dispersion over the globe to preach to all the "left breast, so that, had you rashly attempted thinks that God would have revealed, or different aspect. It shrinks: not from the nations of the earth the heavenly truths of " to rush forward, you would have been acces- what he himself would have revealed had he sory to your own death by stabbing. Not so shedding of blood, from the organizing of Christianity, Since then the Church of God, been God, it is natural that every Protestant insurrection, in extreme cases , even from the the foe of all Secret Societies, has been " with the Brother mho held it ; as he would sect should contain within itself the fertile deadly guilt of assassination. In England, opposed, covertly, by the arch -Secret Society "only hare remained firm to his duty. There germs of disintegrations. " Many men, however, it conies before the world, ostensibly, ot all, the Society of Freemasons. The " was, likewise, this tow cable, with a running many minds :" experience and history have as nothing more important, or more signi- Light seated upon a mountain has been "noose about your neck, which would have sect is inevitably Protestant every that shown ficant, than a Big Benefit Society, whose opposed by the Darkness hidden away in "rendered any attempt at retreat equally fatal the parent of other sects. Once separated meetings are of an essentially convivial holes and corners-the latter being a sinister " by strangling. But the danger which will front the divine unity of the one Church character, highly beneficial, n, doubt, to the power that speaks alone by signs and symbols, "await you to your latest hour is the penalty of established by God, no sect has been vintners mid publicans entrasted with the until its hidden machinations and subter- " your obligation, that you would rathe, have able to prevent some of its members from responsibility of providing its ,entertainments. ranean conspiracies become only too appal- " your throat cut across than to improperly going off and setting up another sect of their Mean% bile the foreign Fa:masons- t he lingly manifest, here and there, abroad, at "divulge the secrets of Masonry." which, in its turn, still other Another oath is taken by the Fellow-craft, own, from take place. Nor can any of these French or Italian Freemasons, for example- uncertain inters als, in the sanguinary outsecessions regard their brethren in this country with a breaks of Communistic Revolutionists. If combining this obligation, undertaken in the reproach the others, or assume, in reason, to s en of disdain, by reason of the very Freemasonry has its signs and symbols, presence of the Grand Geometrician of the thetn, since the raison d'etre of each qualities already described al. distinctive of Christianity has its supreme sign, its supreme Universe-" All these points I most solemnly denounce is the same, and since all, in the last resort, the latter as members of the Craft, to wit- symbol-the sign and symbol of the Cross. " swear to obi71,6-c., h c., under no less a penalty, appeal to the same tribunal, namely "private their conviviality, their comperatice power- The Cli fist ion sign, familiar to every Catholic " on the violation of any of them, in addition to judgment." Nothing is more comical (and lessuess, and their comparative harmlessness. during eighteen centuries and a half, was, "nil/ jiwincr obligation, than TO HAVE Mt LEFT at the same time more mournful) than the The writer of a remarkable article in the and is, made with the right hand touching " BREAST CUT OPEN MY HEART TORN THERE- vagaries of these poor people, Who have turneerrent number of the Month, in reference to the forehead first, then the breast, then the " FROM, and given to the ravenous birds of the ed aside from the straight way in which God " Freemasonry," takes occasion to remark left shoulder, and then the right. The " air or the devouring beasts of the field as a has commanded them to walk, and are wanALMIGHIY (ion, and that while " English Freemasons have, as a Masonic sign, omitting the two first move- "prey:so HELP dering in the wide marshes of human error. at disgust their " body, invariably evinced ments, only imiestes the latter in such a way " keep use steadfast in this my great and solemn The so called "Church of England" has " the conduct of their brethren in France, in as to illustrate the penalty of the oath of the "obligation of a Fellow-craft Mason." an outward semblance of unity But for the solemn adjuration, thus, by maintained " Germany. ash in Italy," these latter, on initiated apprentice The Masonic sign at some time, by reason of the restraint which the other hand, " sneer at their English the official banquets of the Craft, the sign nante, of the Adorable God of the Universe, for exercised over its clergy ; although brit hren as merely playing at Masonry, and made time with the wine -glass, in response the whole would read to us, from beginning parliament every one knows, the widest differences of "as p !eased with their riband', jewels, and to a proposed toast, is, yet more strange to to end, but so much blasphemous Tom- as among them, and the conaprons, as are children with toys." Instead say, precisely the smile as that made by the foolery. These oaths, linwever, in the very opinion "prevail tending schools" can scarcely be prevented of to; s, we would employ a phrase rather celebrant at Mass when he moves (according extravagance of their language, uttered as in open war with each out breaking from more appropriate, to wit -edged tools. If to the most ancient rte, as still practised in that language is, avowedly, in the lecsence What will become of this church they eon be spoken of as mere playing at the ('atlmlic and the Greek Church) the and hearing of Almighty God, are pronounced other. this restraint is removed, is forshadowMao ry, they are playing at it, not as chalice from north to south, and from east in only too frightful seriousness. Harmless when befallen its sister church in and powerless, compared v ely speaking, ed by what has (hildr en with toys, but as children with to west, in the form of a cross That body is, its members Ireland sines its disesteblishment. Freemasonry edged tools, or with fireworks in the midst though English The Mason, upon these occasions, when take these terrible oaths, ee less than do the which even when sustained by all the authoof con ibustibles left, has " Point, ridiculous, says, .Masonic toast, always a was drinking Rer arding the Masonic Craft simply as a Revolutionary and Communistic Masons of rity of the State a fresh exhibition of the ; point, left, right," moving his glass Between the now been making Continent. Scud Society, the writer in the Month right European the northwards, then to the right of the Protestant principoints out that, " curiously enough, by the in front of him Foreign Masons and tl:e English Masons inherent absurdity is, in the form of a cross. relieved from the necessity of " exis..ing statutes one concerning the ille- -that there is a bond of sympathy so intimate that ple. Being its to the requirements of faith conforming It is a niost profane, and even blasphemous, upon the morrow of the Prince ot Wales's " galit v of secret oaths, and another directed it has addressed itself " agail ist the religious Orders of the Catholic adaptation, for merely convivial purposes, of installation as Grand Master, the Grand Acts of Parliament It has the Freemasons mid the Jesuites a portion of the holy ritual of the Adorable Lodge of Italy audaciously addressed his to the task of "revising" its faith. it calls " agency of what the this through done " are, to a certain extent, on a parallel Sacrifice. Freemasonry, in point of fact, Royal Highness, in words of salutation and body of its laity and " footing in the United Kingdom, and exist according to the writer in the Month, has congratulation, this Masonic greeting to the "a general synod"-a of this synod two " amor g us on sufferance." In explanation of developed its ceremonies in imitation of Heir-Apparent to the Crown of England clergy. In the discussions that the manifest-first, made were things brineing together within the ancient Christian ceremonies, as is easily being given, immediately afterwards, in the this s judges of same t 1 her of the two extremes, the writer seen by a comparison of the admission of au Times of the 29th April, 1875, with its laity considered themselves as the teachers and not remark s-" TLe traditional Protestant dread Apprentice Mason with the ceremonies of democratic-Masonic-heading thus, signifi- doctrine and discipline, the the learners secondly, that among the " of th, ' great Society founded by Ignatius Baptism, i.e., of admission into the Catholic cantly, prefixed to of belief about any unity was no there clergy iu any will be found " Lop a is sufficient to account for the legal Church. The one !! Stassoneria Univmsale Communione Italian'." matter whatever. There were quarrels inconinunion.) (Universal reemasonry "provie ions deemed necessary in preserving manual of Freemasonry ; the other, con; and the confusion nnmerable, and endless "Liberta, Frat.11unza, 17,1mglianza." " the 11 ritish Constitution against the sup- cerning the most primitive form of admitting (Liberty, Fraternity, Equality.) synod after a session of thirty-one days, has " posed insidious plots of this purely religious a catechumen, in a Catholic prayer-book. This, remember, to the eldest son and dispersed without completing its work. A " Order, while the historical evidence of the " The candidate," continues the writer, ; and "revolutionary principles and communistic out- adding, immediately, in parenthesis "(of prospective successor of our constitutional few things, however, were accomplished course I speak of adult baptism, the rule of Sovereign. When Ins Royal Highness can be these have been of a nature to shock those of " breahs of continental Freemasons is quite who will retain "sufficient-letting alone the indefensible "the primitive Church) stands without ; is thus addressed, it might surely be said that, the English Episopalians of the Christian " charac ter of secret oaths-to warrant any "asked what he seeks ; is led into the as Grand Master of the Freemasons, he some belief in the doctrines for example, that resolved They anomalous and religion. ambiguous " Government in its passive attitude of super- "Church. In Freemasonry, the candidate occupies a mast has baptism did not mean anything ; and they Monseigneur Dupanloup " vision over a body of men acknowledging, and " (who is blindfolded, his breast bared, and a position. not necessary to " even b oasting of, its brotherhood with those " tow cable place round his neck, while a enabled us to understand, by quoting for our declared, also, that it was the " whose .cry of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,' " Brother' holds the point of a sword to his information the opinion of no less distin- salvation to believe the doctrine of there was " has bet n the watchword of the most sanguinary " breast) stands without, is led into the guished a Freemason than M. Louis Blanc, Trinity. After this, you will say, seem "rebellions against all established authority." " Lodge, and is asked what he seeks. It is who says :-" It seemed good to sovereigns, nothing left to be dune. It would really call themNow, we take it that there is not a man in " worthy of remark," says Joabert M., who " Frederick the Great, to handle the trowel so-but still these wretched people they which in The way ? Since Christians. Why not selves the apron. on put and to startling contribution, " but author of this is the his sober senses, who is not a Freemason, Trinity will give in his assent to the perfect reason- " that in the Christian ceremonial the can- " the existence of the higher grades was care- made this declaration concerning the was taken creed Athanasian didate has his eyes open, but in the Masonic " fully hidden from them, all they knew of is curious. The ableness of every one of the words which we " Freemasonry was that which could be in hand, and it was mutilated. The whole " ritual he us blindfolded." have italicized in the foregoing extract. revealed to them without danger. They creed was retained among the "formulas" of What, however, is the appalling Oath to the that ne given could any security If Masons of England would have their loyalty which we have already made allusion as "had no reason for concerning themselves the Church, but it was ordered that whenheld well in grasp, it would certainly be taken by every admitted apprentice to Free- " about it, seeing that they were kept in the ever it was to be read those clauses of it found in the fact that their Grand Master masonry ? Here it is-" I. N. or M., in the " lower grades, in which they perceived nothing which declare that it is necessary to believe now is the Heir -Apparent. But, admitting " presence of the Great Architect of the " but an opportunity for amusement, joyful that our Lord is God, equal with the Father this, so far as any security of the kind could " Universe, and of this warranted worthy and " banquets, principles forsaken and resumed at and the Holy Ghost, are to be omitted. There go, there remains still the fact that, just as " worshipful lodge offree and accepted 4k? awns, " the threshold of the lodges, formulas that had was a terrible fight over this proposition. ;absolutely as the French Freemasons, and "regularly assembled and properly dedicated, do "no reference to ordinary life-in a word, a The most of the bishops and clergy consented with t he Italian Freemasons, and the German " hereby and hereon, most solemnly and sincerely " coined!, of equality. But in these matters to it, as an easy way of compromising 'reemasons are pledged by the terrible oaths " swear that I will always hale, conceal, and "COMEDY BORDERS CLOSELY UPON TRAGEDY; the Unitarian portion of their people, but the al ready spoken o l', to eternal silence, and to "never reveal any part or parts, point or points " and the princes and nobles were induced to pseudo " Archbishop of Dublin," and the ail solute obedience, so, also, are the compare "of the secrets and mysteries of or belonging to "offer the cover of their name and the blind aid "Bishops of Down and Derry," fought against last. The "archbishop," with tears tie ely harmless, the comparatively powerless " Masons which have been, shall now, or may "of their influence to SECRET UNDERTAKINGS itin tohisthe eyes besought the synod not to mutili" hereafter be communicated to me," &c., &c. "DIRECTED AGAINST THEMSELVES." and the entirely convivial Freemasons of th It were well for his Royal Highness to lay late the creed, and even hinted that if they Masons, as a Craft " /further promise that I will not write those Uni ted Kingdom. persisted he would not accept the decisions, exis,ted-not frot n yesterday. They existe d " secrets, print, carve, engrave, or otherwise those significant words of one of thewellmost to but would secede, and set up a new church befoce their progenitors began building u P " them delineate, or cause or suffer them to be thoughtful Revolutionists in Europe the Power of Babel. When their first daring " done so by others if in my power to prevent it heart. They are worth measuring in their on his own book. The synod, however, I
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